1036979
Registered Number: 12573

1. Place of Death: County of Cook, Registration District No. 3104. City: Chicago, Primary District No. 3104. Address: 1107 S. Robey St. Ward: 28. Length of Residence in city or town where death occurred 30 years. How long in U. S. if foreign birth: 30 years.
2. Full Name: Elizabeth P. Jordan. Residence: 1107 S. Robey St.
3. Sex: Male
4. Color: White
5. Marriage Status: Widow. If married, widowed, or divorced Husband of James Jordan
6. Date of Birth: February 28, 1847
7. Age: 84 Years 1 Month 2 Days
8. Trade, profession, or particular kind of work: at home
9. Industry or business in which was done:
10. Date deceased last worked at this occupation:
11. Total time (years) spent in this occupation:
12. Birthplace: London, England
13. Name of Father: Joseph Steward
14. Birthplace of Father: London, England
15. Maiden Name of Mother: Elizabeth
16. Birthplace of Mother: London, England
17. Informant: James O. Jordan, 1107 S. Robey St.
18. Place of Burial, Cremation: Waldheim Location: Forest Park County: Cook State: Illinois
19. Date of Burial: 4/25/1931
20. Undertaker: W. A. Haggard Address: 214 So. Western
21. Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: April 22, 1931
22. I hereby certify, that I attended deceased from January 1, 1931 to April 22, 1931. I saw her last alive on March 24, 1931; death is said to have occurred on the date stated above at 7 P.M. The principal cause of death and related causes of importance were as follows: Carcinoma of the Right Breast, Date of onset: Do not know. Other contributory causes of importance: None
23. Where was disease contacted, if not at place of death: Do not Know. Was and operation performed: No. Was there an autopsy: No. What test confirmed diagnosis: Clinical only.
24.  Was the disease in any way related to occupation of deceased: No. Signed: H. H. Merrill, 4754 Washington Blvd. Date: April 24, 1931.
25. Filed: 1931 April 24 PM 9:44

• Very little is known about James Jordan, the man who gave us our adopted the name. He was the second husband of Elizabeth Priscilla Holloway Steward Scholdberg. He married Elizabeth a year after her first husband, Knut Oscar Scholdberg died. It is not known how they met. He may have been from her Poplar neighborhood, or he may have been a shipmate of her husband.
• There are numerous references indicating Elizabeth P. Jordan was widow, thus it is presumed that James died shortly before she came to America with her remaining children in 1893. However, it is possible that they divorced.
• On the presumption that Elizabeth came to America as a widow and was prompted by his death, I arranged for a researcher to compile a list of all James Jordans that died in England between 1891 and 1893. Unfortunately, twenty-eight James Jordans were found. Twenty-five were listed simply as James Jordan with no middle name. None had died in Poplar; however, one had died in Bethnal Green. Bethnal Green is within a few miles of Poplar.

• In July 1987, the full registration record for the Bethnal Green James Jordan was obtained. This registration revealed that a James Jordan had died on May 14, 1893, in the Workhouse in Bethnal Green, England. He was 51 years old and was employed as a silk weaver.
• It is not clear from this record whether this is our James Jordan due to the lack of collaborating evidence. His age of 51 years would be reasonable to be married to a woman of 46; however, the signature of the informant is not his wife. In addition, the occupation does not seem to match since our James Jordan was a donkey engine driver in 1876 and a donkeyman in 1879, presumably on the docks. This does not seem like the kind of a person who would become a weaver, thus it is unlikely this is our James Jordan.